----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: Mutant 59?
> That was a good read (well, several decades ago it > was)- > >> Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Fungus eats enduring plastic >> Voracious microbe points way to recycling resins. >> >> > <<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060605/full/060605-5.html>> > > Back when I was briefly in grad school, I worked as > part of a project to isolate and identify bacteria > capable of degrading phenolic compounds -- the big > problems were target compounds toxicity > concentrations, and slow growth of the bugs. > Microbial breakdown of chemical nasties has great > potential, but needs more activeresearch. > I worked in a phenol unit at one time. Nasty stuff in concentration, but in diluted form it's in all manner of products from medicines to wintergreen Lifesavers. (Yeah...its the stuff that makes the flashes when you crunch them in the dark.) xponent Sparks Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
